Just finished watching Newsnight on TV, which had a piece on the “retirement” from full time employment at Microsoft of Bill Gates in 2008. I wonder it this announcement will have more success in delivering to date than Vista ? Anyhow what was interesting was the BBC’s choice of Microsoft spokesperson, rather than the standard …
The importance of corporate bloggers as a source of useful information (mostly without spin) was demonstrated by yesterdays reporting of the resignation of Robert Scoble from Microsoft by the BBC. Scobles’ blog, for many a must read to understand what was actually happening in Redmond, had become a true icon of the blogosphere. I’m not …
Silicon.com reports on a presentation given by Tim Berners-Lee in Edinburgh yesterday putting his support behind the movement to maintain the concept of “Net Neutrality”. Net Neutrality describes the current status quo where all network traffic is equal in the eyes of the providers of network infrastructure, e.g your network packet containing email to granny …
This evenings Evening Standard, London’s evening newspaper reports that for the first time London’s Black Taxi Cab drivers are to be allowed to supplement they “Knowledge” of the streets of London with GPS navigation systems. For the Public Carriage Office, not an organisation known for its grip on technology (have you ever tried to pay …
My Blog has been nominated for this years New Statesman New Media Award, in the Modernising government category, which aims to highlight “the most innovative use of new media technology to improve efficiency and modernise services at any level of government.” While I’m very pleased to be nominated, I am most proud of the fact …
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As a regular listener to Steve Gillmors’ Gillmor Gang podcast, I have become familiar with the concept of Attention, which is now entering the technology mainstream with a good writeup in MIT’s Technology Review Attention as a concept is a realisation that with the massive increase in content on the internet, both professional and “consumer” generated, …
So how cool is you site, do you use AJAX? is your content developed by a community of interested users as an experiment is social networks, do you have millions of users and no obvious business model (hang on.. that can’t be right), in other words is your site on the Web2.0 List. If you …
My wife Lisa, loves the Channel 4 TV programme Location, Location, Location in which Phil and Kirstie our friendly property experts, try to find a new house for a member of the general public who think they know what they want, but almost always don’t have enough money. I mention this, as today I attended …
Peter Cochrane this week in his blog, talks about the potential of technology such as Iris scanning to spend up the process of security checks at airports. As someone who has passed through Heathrow a couple of times in the last month, what I want to understand is what has gone wrong with the x-ray …
I spent a very enjoyable Saturday this weekend, helping to man the Ordnance Survey stand at the Outdoors Show, a public exhibition for everybody who enjoys the outdoors. Amongst all the stands showing canoes, sleeping bags, climbing ropes, and maps !! what really got my interest was the every growing number of vendors of “high …
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